Church leaders need to prepare for realities of 'post-peak' restrictions
- Apr 10, 2020
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If Francis really wants women deacons, this seems an odd way to go about it
- Apr 9, 2020
The pontiff acted Tuesday on one of the recommendations of the recent Synod of Bishops for the Amazon by creating – for the second time in four years – a commission to study whether women might be ordained as deacons.
US Catholics respond to Pope’s ‘challenging’ Amazon document
- Feb 15, 2020
The pope’s highly anticipated apostolic exhortation on the Amazon has sparked a variety of responses from Catholics around the United States.
Mixed reactions to Querida Amazonia from Brazilian bishops
- Feb 15, 2020
The post-synodal apostolic exhortation published by Pope Francis on Feb. 12 generated mixed reactions from the Brazilian episcopate.
Pope’s top aides say door still open on married priests, women deacons
- Feb 12, 2020
Though Pope Francis’s highly anticipated document on the Amazon bypasses the hot-button issues of women deacons and the married priesthood, a number of the pope’s close advisers have said the door is not definitively closed.
Pope Benedict XVI breaks silence to reaffirm priest celibacy
- Jan 13, 2020
Retired Pope Benedict XVI has broken his silence to reaffirm the “necessity” of priestly celibacy, co-authoring a bombshell book at the precise moment that Pope Francis is weighing whether to allow married men to be ordained to address the Catholic priest shortage.
Pope’s early 2020 likely to be dominated by documents rather than deeds
- Jan 7, 2020
At least for the early part of 2020, it seems likely the biggest papal bombshells will come in things the pope is expected to publish.
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